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Cable Firms Limit Users' Freedoms
Passacaglia writes "An article in the Washington Post reports that a coalition of companies, including Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, and even the BSA, have filed a report with the FCC complaining about how cable providers are placing restrictions on how subscribers use broadband access. This is in the wake of the recent FCC ruling that cable providers need not open their networks to competition from outside ISPs. The restrictions include limits on VPNs, servers, and many things that would make broadband really worth having." Meanwhile, TWC sent nastygrams to people it suspects are using unsecured wireless networks, skimming the info from the public database of wireless access points.
Yeah. . . and if you want to do adminstration from a campsite. . . but really, Slashdot shouldn't be giving press to such blatant homophobes . . .
OH! BSA not BSA!
It's funny because BSA was actually what I first thought of when I saw the story.
I couldn't tell if you were experimenting with poor-man's cryogenics or looking for the orange sherbet.
Gregory Powell
Abuse & Security, Supervisor
So according to his title, Mr. Gregory Powell supervises the abuse of roadrunner customers as well as their security, right? He is the Abuse-Master!
Do you think he is related to the other Mr. Powell (Jr.) who supervises the abuse of all telecommunications users collectively?
Or maybe his father, the other Mr. Powell (Sr.), who will then come to bomb your home to stop the "anonymous criminal activity"?
Just remember the following...
Try to think as if you're an ISP:
- Users doing anything on their computer that requires bandwidth costs you money.
- Users running servers costs you money.
- Users running servers that serve MP3s or movies costs you LOTs of money (lots of bandwidth), and could open you up to legal issues.
- Users who telecommute should be able to "afford" to buy a business package for home. After all, if they lead such a wonderful life as to be able to work from home, then they SHOULD pay extra to us!
- Users who run servers or share internet connections bother tech support.
Solution? Deny all servers.
If possible, deny anything that users may do other than web surfing and email. No telecommuting here!
Infact, if it's possible to bill users without providing ANY service, that's the way to go!
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
I dunno, it still sounds dirty to me.
- In Capitalist America, law violates YOU!